Florida Senate - 2024                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 266
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/22/2024           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Hooper) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 651 and 652
    4  insert:
    5         Section 8. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section
    6  338.26, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         338.26 Alligator Alley toll road.—
    8         (3)(a) Fees generated from tolls shall be deposited in the
    9  State Transportation Trust Fund and shall be used:
   10         1. To reimburse outstanding contractual obligations;
   11         2. To operate and maintain the highway and toll facilities,
   12  including reconstruction and restoration;
   13         3. To pay for those projects that are funded with Alligator
   14  Alley toll revenues and that are contained in the 1993-1994
   15  adopted work program or the 1994-1995 tentative work program
   16  submitted to the Legislature on February 22, 1994; and
   17         4. By interlocal agreement effective July 1, 2019, through
   18  no later than June 30, 2027, to reimburse a local governmental
   19  entity for the direct actual costs of operating the fire station
   20  at mile marker 63 on Alligator Alley, which shall be used by the
   21  local governmental entity to provide fire, rescue, and emergency
   22  management services exclusively to the public on Alligator
   23  Alley. The local governmental entity must contribute 10 percent
   24  of the direct actual operating costs. Beginning July 1, 2024,
   25  the amount of reimbursement in any state fiscal year to the
   26  local governmental entity may not exceed $2 million, which shall
   27  increase to reflect any upward adjustment adopted by the U.S.
   28  Bureau of Labor Statistics for the previous 12 months in the
   29  Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for Miami-Fort
   30  Lauderdale-West Palm Beach $1.4 million in any state fiscal
   31  year. In accordance with the capital improvement plan of the
   32  local governmental entity, the local governmental entity shall
   33  also be reimbursed for replacement of fire apparatus that is a
   34  like or similar model to Class A fire apparatus in use at the
   35  fire station and which conforms to the currently adopted
   36  equipment needs and safety standards of the local governmental
   37  entity. Any funds received by the local governmental entity from
   38  the surplus of fire apparatus being replaced in accordance with
   39  this paragraph shall be used to reduce the amount reimbursed to
   40  the local governmental entity for that year. Any fire apparatus
   41  purchased using state funds may not be used at another fire
   42  station of the local governmental entity. At the end of the term
   43  of the interlocal agreement, the ownership and title of all
   44  fire, rescue, and emergency equipment purchased with state funds
   45  and used at the fire station during the term of the interlocal
   46  agreement transfers to the state.
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   49  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   50  And the title is amended as follows:
   51         Delete line 63
   52  and insert:
   53         and entities; amending s. 338.26, F.S.; removing dates
   54         for an interlocal agreement for a certain fire
   55         station; increasing the amount reimbursed to a local
   56         governmental entity for operating the fire station;
   57         providing for an increase in the amount reimbursed
   58         based on the consumer price index; providing
   59         requirements for the replacement and surplus of fire
   60         apparatus; creating s. 339.2820, F.S.; creating